https://miranj.in/blog/2026/flickr-web-2-and-the-commons
"Anil Dash reflects on the monumental role Flickr had in shaping late 2000s-era
internet culture (often referred to as Web 2.0) in a deceivingly titled essay
on his site:
Flickr is a social sharing site for photography which was founded in 2004,
and these days people might say that it shares some of its cofounders with
Slack, though back when Slack started, everybody said that the company was
started by some of the founders of Flickr. That’s because Flickr was
arguably the most influential site of the Web 2.0 era, helping define
everything from the user interface design to the bright colors to the easy
way that developers could access data from the platform. A lot of the things
that we take for granted on the modern social internet, like a friendly
“voice” used to communicate to users, were pioneered by Flickr, and then
quickly came to be considered standard expectations for the apps and sites
that followed. It’s hard to imagine that sites from Tumblr to Grindr would
have omitted their final “e”s without Flickr’s precedent."
Via Violet Blue’s
Threat Model - Cybersecurity: May 12, 2026
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-12-158044076
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
